Lawrence University Lux Conservatory of Music Concert Programs Conservatory of Music 11-7-2016 8:00 PM New Music Series, Peter Evans, trumpet, and Sam Pluta, electronics, November 7, 2016 Lawrence University Follow this and additional works at: http://lux.lawrence.edu/concertprograms Part of the Music Performance Commons © Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Recommended Citation Lawrence University, "New Music Series, Peter Evans, trumpet, and Sam Pluta, electronics, November 7, 2016" (2016). Conservatory of Music Concert Programs. Program 103. http://lux.lawrence.edu/concertprograms/103 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Conservatory of Music at Lux. It has been accepted for inclusion in Conservatory of Music Concert Programs by an authorized administrator of Lux. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEW MUSIC SERIES 2016–2017 New Music Series 2016-17 Splinter Reeds Wednesday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. | Harper Hall Peter Evans, trumpet and Sam Pluta, electronics Monday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m. | Harper Hall Wet Ink Friday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m. | Harper Hall The music of Marcos Balter and Stacy Garrop: Saxophone and composition collaboration project Sunday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. | Harper Hall Roomful of Teeth Friday, April 7, 8 p.m. | Lawrence Memorial Chapel Peter Evans, trumpet, and Sam Pluta, electronics lawrence.edu/conservatory/performance_series/new_music CO16-260 by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, the Peter Evans, trumpet, Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival and the Jerome Foundation’s and Sam Pluta, electronics Emerging Artist Program. He has presented and/or performed his works at Darmstadt, the Köln Trienalle and Roulette Intermedium Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 and has toured his own groups extensively in Europe, Canada and 8 p.m. | Harper Hall the United States, including appearances at Warsaw Jazz Days, the Moers Festival, Jazz em Agosto, the Vancouver Jazz Festival and Program announced from stage All Tomorrow’s Parties. He maintains an interest in collaborative performing, both with notated and improvised materials and has No intermission worked with some of the leading figures in new music: Peter Brötzmann, Tyshawn Sorey, Jim Black, John Butcher, Steve Shick, Peter Evans, trumpet, and Sam Pluta, electronics, have been Dave Taylor, Jim Black, Weasel Walter, Mats Gustafsson, Mary collaborating since 2008 in a wide variety of contexts. Their work Halvorson, Keiji Haino, Christian Marclay and George Lewis. He together has been featured in the Peter Evans Quintet, Rocket performs with both the International Contemporary Ensemble and Science (with Craig Taborn and Evan Parker), Parker’s USA Electro- the Wet Ink Ensemble. Acoustic Septet, ICE and the Wet Ink Ensemble. In the duo format, Pluta and Evans use all they have developed from their experience Sam Pluta is a composer and electronics performer whose together to forge a new and dynamically interactive music. Since work explores the intersections between instrumental forces, the release of their recordings Sum and Difference in 2011 and reactive computerized sound worlds, traditionally notated scores, Event Horizon in 2014, they have persistently honed and refined improvisation, audio-visuals, psycho-acoustic phenomena and their duo music into a fully formed type of electro-acoustic installation-like soundscapes. Since 2009, Sam has served as chamber music. Improvisation and a commitment to the explosive technical director and composing member of Wet Ink Ensemble, energy of sound itself informs the duo’s approach to real time one of the premiere new music ensembles in the United States. composition. With Wet Ink, he has written numerous works, premiered compositions by some of the leading composers of today and Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical performed electro-acoustic masterworks of the past century. In community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating addition to his work with Wet Ink, Sam has received commissions Oberlin Conservatory with B.A. in classical trumpet. Peter currently and written music for groups like Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Dal works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, Niente, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, chamber ensembles, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic Mantra Percussion and Spektral Quartet. Laptop improvisation is music, jazz and composition. As a performer, Evans has been a core part of Pluta’s artistic practice. Performing on his custom working to broaden the expressive range of his chosen instrument software instrument, the Live Modular Instrument, he has toured and enjoys playing with steady configurations of players and internationally with Rocket Science, the Evan Parker Electro- composers. Current ensembles include the Peter Evans Zebulon Acoustic Ensemble and the Peter Evans Quintet. For the past three Trio and Quintet, the collaborative trio Pulverize the Sound with years, he was named the top electronics performer in the world Tim Dahl and Mike Pride, and Rocket Science with Sam Pluta, by the El Intruso International Critics Poll of jazz journalists. His Craig Taborn and Evan Parker. Evans has been performing and sound-based approach to improvisation complements the timbre- recording solo trumpet music since 2003 and is widely recognized rich playing of his collaborators, resulting in an improvised music as a leading voice in that field. As a composer, in addition to with simultaneous roots in jazz, noise and musique concrète. Pluta writing for his own ensembles, Evans has been commissioned is assistant professor of music and director of the electronic music studio at the University of Chicago..